Connection between Relationships and Emotions

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Emotions can make a powerful or hollow connection between two people. Although a person’s emotions can define their relationship with someone else, emotions can also separate the two people. Relationships can be more meaningful when the people involved are on the same page. Positive emotional connections create stability in relationships. There is a variety of relationships that a person experiences in a lifetime. A relationship is something that connects two or more people emotionally, mentally or physically. Relationships can be with family, friends, a significant other, and co-workers. Some relationships can help boost self-confidence and self-worth if the relationship goes well or ends well. Although some relationships can tear a person down mentally and emotionally. All relationships go back to a person’s first attachment with their parents which starts “the development of social and emotional behaviors” (Parette 3). A person’s relationship between them and their parent(s) can affect their emotions and connections with other people. A child’s relationship with their parent or parents can be quite complicated. Complicated relationships can come from living arrangements. . A “supporting, caring family environments provide a basis for the development of competence, self-respect and adequate behaviour of children and young people” (Erdes-Kavecan 301). It can affect the child’s emotions because the child can feel happy or depressed about the situation. If the child gets the choice to live with one parent or another, a step parent or even a guardian. A “supporting, caring family environments provide a basis for the development of competence, self-respect and adequate behaviour of children and young people” (Erdes-Kavecan 301) A ch... ... middle of paper ... ...ss stressful. Works Cited Bullcock, Janis R. “Children’s Loneliness and Their Relationships with Family and Peers.” Family Relations 42.1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 46-49. Print. Erdes-Kavecan, Djerdji, Milka Oljaca, Svetlana Kostovic, and Maja Kovacevic. "Relationship Between Psychosocial And Physical Health of a Child With The Dimensions of the Functioning of Single-parent Families." HealthMed 6.1 (2012): 301-08. Print. Parette, Howard P., Jr., and Jack J. Hourcade. "The Effect of Neurological Dysfunction on the Social and Emotional Development of Young Children." (1990): 3-41. Print. Shalash, Fatimah M., Nathan D. Wood, and Trent S. Parker. "Our Problems Are Your Sibling's Fault: Exploring the Connections Between Conflict Styles of Siblings During Adolescence and Later Adult Committed Relationships." American Journal Of Family Therapy (2013): 288-98. Print.

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